David Moffett, featured in these motley pages some time ago, has deleted himself from Fred: WSJ Freddie Mac CEO Will Resign Freddie Mac's chief executive officer, David Moffett, announced his resignation from the U.S. government-backed mortgage company just six months after being installed in that p...

"I love this place and its people", says Mr. Stanford. That relationship deepened four years ago, he says, when he met a local Catholic priest with wounds in his hands and feet that he believed to be the stigmata of Jesus Christ. As a memento of that life-changing experience, Mr. Stanford carries wi...

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Love that " now ." For the first time in how long, we appear to have a conscious leader in USia. DN has good stuff: Lowery, Belafonte and Gregory...

For a symbol of power, St. Gaudens instinctively preferred the horse, as was plain in his horse and Victory of the Sherman monument. Doubtless Sherman also felt it so. The attitude was so American that, for at least forty years, Adams had never realized that any other could be in sound taste. How ma...

As people in the US struggle in the murk of the economic disaster, the international malaise, the unending Bush bravado, the inklings of the new administration, it would, one supposes, be up to the "fourth estate" to help it reach some stage of self-understanding - at least a couple of steps on the ...

US Refuses to Sign Treaty Banning Cluster BombsAround 100 nations have begun signing a new international treaty banning the use of cluster bombs. . . . Washington, Moscow and other non-signers say cluster bombs have legitimate military uses. But according to the group Handicap International, 98 perc...

"And be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them." Al Quaeda to Obama. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." Unidentified Bush advisor, 2002. I can't help but think that until the...

A reviewer of Robert Kuttner's new book, Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency: If it sounds like I'm angry, I am. I hate that most of my adult life has been lived in a country that has become the testing ground for so many hare-brained ideas and c...

Those who are unable to join President George W. Bush at the Olympics in Beijing might console themselves with a film that will probably be worth its weight in Olympic Gold, and more than that long after these games are forgotten. See Lost in Beijing and let me know if it doesn't offer more China th...

Not to entirely be confused with stromateis: Can you tell that this: is this: If you are in Tallahassee, FL, or select other locales, Wal-Mart can look like this. Still the same inside, as far as I know (didn't enter the one pictured above). Wal-Mart will adapt. It is good to find the all too, too s...